Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] up at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he 'd picked up at the news-stand . |
| 2 | Times I 've , I 've sat up at the window trying to wa watch her coming round two o'clock in the morning hoping that he 's fallen asleep down in the armchair . |
| 3 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 4 | He passed me a map and a brochure he had picked up at the hotel . |
| 5 | Later , much later , he put the book down , and the cuttings which he had picked up at the end of his reading . |
| 6 | The scene when Nancy had turned up at the Shangri-La guest house must have been terrible . |
| 7 | Religious communities at St-Martin , Tours , or St-Denis near Paris , had grown up at the tombs of martyrs in cemetery sites outside Roman civitates , and by the ninth century housed over a hundred clergy or monks apiece . |
| 8 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 9 | It would be a chance to see her on neutral ground , maybe even a chance to explain that it was n't his bloody fault that Laura had shown up at the door only seconds before she herself had . |
| 10 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 11 | ‘ Now we 've tightened up at the back but we are not putting them away up front.do n't seem to be able to put them away up front . |
| 12 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I got held Up at the office . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I got held up at the office . ’ |
| 15 | For in the topsy turvy pecking order which is the current Russian economy , the middle class academics , civil servants and doctors have wound up at the bottom of the wages spiral , their savings largely , meaningless . |
| 16 | Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer . |
| 17 | Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer . |
| 18 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 19 | And as he 's driven up at the back then he looked up and he said you ca you could see daylight through it so it was , was n't blocked by anything . |
| 20 | And they say , you know , ev even in apparently wealthy families , er , you know , because the way the money 's divided up at the end of the week , or the end of the month or whatever , that that , the no the child benefit money 's all , all the woman gets . |